Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
US Secretary of State Colin Powell Declares Darfur Genocide in 2004
Divestment Campaign Goal: Take Away the Money = Stop the Genocide
Genocide Olympics Campaign Goal: Shame the Chinese Funding the Killing
Spotlight on College Student Activist: Brandeis student, Daniel Millenson
Spotlight on DY High School Student Activists: Sarah Hodsdon
Spotlight on DY High School Student Activist: Jen Pimentel
No Prom For Darfur
Genocide Olympics
Did it work?
Positive Outcomes:
Sudan President Bashir indicted by International Criminal Court
Divestment Success
World Paid More Attention (for a while)
Young people who acted as global citizens still on world stage
Negative Outcomes:
Bashir Still in Power
Killing switched from guns to starvation and deprivation
Thousands still in refugee camps
Apathy and indifference to suffering continues
My conclusion is summed up in a Theodore Parker quote recycled recently by President Obama:
"I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
or as Martin Luther King, Jr. put it
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
Or as Steven Pinker established in his recent book, "The Better Angels of our Nature"
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